{"id":633,"date":"2011-03-19T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2011-03-19T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T23:04:29","slug":"canon-pixma-mp970-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=633","title":{"rendered":"Canon Pixma MP970 on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/mp610.blogspot.com\/\">Canon Pixma Linux blog<\/a> recommends a <a href=\"http:\/\/support-asia.canon-asia.com\/contents\/ASIA\/EN\/0100159004.html\">printer driver from Canon Asia<\/a>.  The debian package wouldn&#8217;t install, so I built from source.  The top level directory has a Make file that, while not working itself, listed the subdirectories to be built.  In each subdirectory, there was an INSTALL file that listed how each was to be built.<br \/>\nThen I restarted the printer service<br \/>\n<code>service cups restart<\/code><br \/>\nand ran System > Administration > Printing, clicked Add, selected Network Printer and chose AppSocket\/HP JetDirect.  I entered the IP of the printer and left the port at its default of 9100.  The IP can be found on the printer&#8217;s menu under Settings > Device Settings > LAN Settings > Display LAN Settings.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Pixma MP970 wasn&#8217;t listed.  The closest model number was the MP830.  <\/p>\n<p>Another search turned up a <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cups-bjnp\/\">newer driver<\/a>, so I tried that by following the instructions in the README file.  After the installation, I ran System > Administration > Printing, clicked Add, then the + next to Network Printer and then Find Network Printer and the Canon showed up.  I selected it (it already had the URI) and clicked Forward.  It searched for drivers, then had me choose a driver, but still no MP970.  The MP150 will print greyscale supposedly (I got grey, magenta and yellow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canon Pixma Linux blog recommends a printer driver from Canon Asia. The debian package wouldn&#8217;t install, so I built from source. The top level directory has a Make file that, while not working itself, listed the subdirectories to be built. In each subdirectory, there was an INSTALL file that listed how each was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}